X-Git-Url: http://git.efficios.com/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=doc%2Fman%2Flttng-enable-rotation.1.txt;h=a002085aa6c24e528bb3367f37d9dfe8d5981f3f;hb=8bd71deafbf1d15f47f4935280a6290368ec6224;hp=37c9e2c7be4fa021d12aaf9aa47dd76aced9f603;hpb=eb027cfc9ad54c48c468f60fc34be14d804eb7a2;p=lttng-tools.git diff --git a/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt b/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt index 37c9e2c7b..a002085aa 100644 --- a/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt +++ b/doc/man/lttng-enable-rotation.1.txt @@ -1,5 +1,6 @@ lttng-enable-rotation(1) ======================== +:revdate: 13 November 2018 NAME @@ -32,14 +33,18 @@ without a unit suffix). For both option:--timer and option:--size options, LTTng checks the schedule condition periodically using the monitor timers of the tracing -session's channels. This means that, with the option:--timer option, the -automatic rotation can occur when the elapsed time since the last -automatic rotation is greater than 'PERIOD', and with the option:--size -option, the automatic rotation can occur when the size of the flushed -part of the current trace chunk is greater than 'SIZE'. Therefore the -'PERIOD' and 'SIZE' arguments are approximations. See the -nloption:--monitor-timer option in man:lttng-enable-channel(1) for more -information about the monitor timer. +session's channels (see the nloption:--monitor-timer option of the +man:lttng-enable-channel(1) command). This means that: + +* With the option:--timer option, the automatic rotation can occur when + the elapsed time since the last automatic rotation is slightly greater + than 'PERIOD'. The exact precision is governed by the monitor timer's + precision, which relies on the precision of the platform's + implementation of POSIX timers. + +* With the option:--size option, the automatic rotation can occur when + the size of the flushed part of the current trace chunk is greater + than 'SIZE'. You can combine the option:--timer and option:--size options.